Letter to the Editor: Don’t allow bear hunting in Connecticut

Published 4:13 pm, Monday, May 22, 2017

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Letter to the Editor: Don’t allow bear hunting in Connecticut

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I am writing to ask for compassionate people to help save Connecticut’s magnificent bears. Mean-spirited Connecticut legislators want to pass a law to allow bear hunting in our state. If the mother bear is shot down and killed by a hunter, the bear cubs will die a nasty slow death from starvation.

Also, the woods would be less safe for hikers and joggers because a trigger happy hunter (maybe with some drinks) might mistake a person for a bear and shoot them. It’s happened before in other states. Guns and drinking don’t mix. Also, we don’t need our children to be traumatized by a hunter dragging a dead mother bear or cub down the street and seeing that.